Beauchampe: Or, The Kentucky Tragedy, a Sequel to Charlemont, 第 1 卷Belford, Clarke & Company, 1888 - 402页 |
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Alfred Stevens Anna Cooke answer apprehension avenge Barnabas Beau Beauchampe Beauchampe's beauty believe better bosom champe Charlemont Colonel Sharpe Covington crime danger dark dear death deceive declare dishonor doubt dream ears effect exclaimed eyes face fancy fate fear feel fellow felt Frankfort gentleman glance hand happy hate Hawick hear heard heart Hinkley hope husband implore Jane Jesuit's bark knew kurnel lady leave lips longer look madness Margaret Cooper marriage meet mind Miss Cooke monomania mother nabas nature necessity never night nose once pain panion parties passion perhaps person prayer Red Heifer replied Sallie Bernard scarcely seek seemed shame sight sleep smile sort soul spare speak speaker spirit spoke story strange suddenly suffer sure sweet tell terrible thing thought tion told true truth utterance vengeance voice wife William Calvert woman words young youth
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第199页 - Beware of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee.
第330页 - Give ue, say I, Kentucky practice, like that of Beauchampe, as a social law, rather than that which prevails in some of our pattern cities, where women are, in three fourths the number of instances, the victims — violated, mangled, murdered — where men are the criminals — and where (Heaven kindly having withdrawn the sense of shame) there is no one guilty — at least none brave enough or manly enough to bring the guilty to punishment ! What is said is not meant to defend or encourage the shedding...
第361页 - He, above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined; and the excess Of glory obscured...
第358页 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
第164页 - Black spirits and white ; red spirits and gray ; Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. • Titty, tiffin, Keep it stiff in; Firedrake, Puckey, Make it lucky ; Liard, Robin, You must bob in. Round, around, around, about, about ; All ill come running in ; all good keep out ! 1st Witch.
第111页 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
第146页 - Why, look you, sir ; I can be as calm as silence All the while music plays. Strike on, sweet friend, As mild and merry as the heart of innocence ; no I prithee, take my temper.
第330页 - John, after certain processes of evidence, will be sent to the state prison or the gallows, and make a goodly show on some gloomy Friday, for the curious of both sexes. Law is a very good thing in its way, but it is not every thing; and there are some honest impulses, in every manly bosom, which are the best of all moral laws, as they are the most certainly human of all laws.
第17页 - And the same delightful condition of now-performance, continued for five years, would have ruined you, also, for any career of usefulness and manhood. And this would have been a crime, my son, as well as a shame. Neither you nor I, believe me, were designed for the slavish employment — however sweet — " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nessra's hair.
第74页 - He read with avidity, and studied with industry ; and, at the age of twenty-one, was admitted to the practice of law in the courts of the state.